By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
In November Granite Shoals will be the first city in the 172-year history of the State of Texas to call an election to re-affirm a bond issue.
That is what citizens heard at the Town Hall Meeting for Road Improvement Bond Update held Saturday, July 29, in Granite Shoals.
“The city attorney (Brand Young) had to go all the way to the secretary of state to see if was allowed,” said Eric Tanner, chairman of the new Arterial Road Bond Committee. “But the city council decided to seek voter re-confirmation before issuing the $3 million in bonds approved last November.”
Tanner's committee was created just because of questions that were bound to arise when a city council hesitated before spending money essentially in hand.
The meeting on road improvements may have drawn only half the crowd that turned out for a recent urban deer update, but they were citizens with plenty of questions.
